We Shall Not Be Moved : The Jackson Woolworth's Sit-In and the Movement It Inspired /
Once in a great while, a certain photograph captures the essence of an era: three people - one black and two white - demonstrate for equality at a lunch counter while a horde of cigarette-smoking hotshots pour catsup, sugar, and other condiments on the protesters' heads and down their backs. Th...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
2013
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Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Julian Bond
- Prologue
- Medgar's Mississippi
- Some people in the photograph
- Others at the counter
- Others on the scene
- North Jackson Action
- "The beginning of change in Mississippi"
- More demonstrations, less unity
- The death of Medgar Evers
- "The Lord's spontaneous demonstration"
- Next steps
- Veterans of domestic wars
- Epilogue.